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Fifty years from now, historians will be identifying the criminality of the George W. Bush Administration. As these academics document their task they will be dependent on authors who were \u0022in his face\u0022 at the time of these international crimes. Blase Bonpane believes that silence is complicity. Civilization is Possible identifies the crimes at the very time they were being committed. Aside from the weekly commentaries of Blase Bonpane, this volume also includes his personal interviews with like minded observers of the disastrous Bush years: Noam Chomsky, Chalmers Johnson, Robert Fisk, Greg Palast and Peter Laufer. These are voices crying in the wilderness of rampant militarism, torture and collateral damage (murder). This toxic mix was nurtured by literally hundreds of lies coming from a failed administration that blatantly abused the sacred trust of our citizens. These commentaries would have never been permitted by the rigid corporate media censorship which marks the Iraq War years. This exercise of free speech in Civilization is Possible was only made possible by \u0022fiercely independent\u0022 KPFK radio Los Angeles (listener supported and \u0022powered by the people\u0022) for the Pacifica Network. Civilization is Possible completes a trilogy of Blase Bonpane's books published by Red Hen Press. His previous books were: Guerrillas of Peace; Pacifica Radio Commentaries and Peace Reports from the Office of the Americas, second printing, 2002, and Common Sense for the Twenty-First Century, 2004, which in addition to his radio commentaries includes interviews with the Reverend James Lawson, Jonathan Schell and Chalmers Johnson. By selecting The Universal Declaration of Human Rights as the preface to Civilization is Possible, Blase Bonpane gives a hint about how his title might become a reality.

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This book <i>Civilization is Possible</i> should be read by every man, woman and adolescent child in the United States.</p>Never has it been more important for the American people to understand exactly who rules the United States and what bastadary they are imposing upon the nation's people by saying one thing and yet doing something completely different.</p>This book, simply and eloquently states the obvious the wonderful United States is under the most subtle and sustained attack by people who are greedy, mean and clever, so utterly unlike the founders of the country who were wise, kind and caring and who embodied wonderful visions for the future of their embryonic nation.</p>Read this book NOW, imbibe and digest its contents, remember the wisdom and direction of the founders, then rise up and reclaim your nation!</p> Helen Caldicott</p>

This book Civilization is Possible should be read by every man, woman and adolescent child in the United States.Never has it been more important for the American people to understand exactly who rules the United States and what bastadary they are imposing upon the nation's people by saying one thing and yet doing something completely different.This book, simply and eloquently states the obvious the wonderful United States is under the most subtle and sustained attack by people who are greedy, mean and clever, so utterly unlike the founders of the country who were wise, kind and caring and who embodied wonderful visions for the future of their embryonic nation.Read this book NOW, imbibe and digest its contents, remember the wisdom and direction of the founders, then rise up and reclaim your nation! Helen Caldicott

There is no more cogent, timely commentary to be found on urgent moral and political challenges facing us today, this week, than these columns and interviews by Blase Bonpane produced over the previous four years. To discover that in these pages is to feel shame and anger as an American that the shocking crimes and outrages of our government exposed here have been allowed by our society to persist or recur to this day. Fortunately, Bonpane's prophetic voice, along with his own example of courageous witness over four decades, can inspire readers to move beyond those emotions to action for a better world.<br> --Daniel Ellsberg

This book Civilization is Possible should be read by every man, woman and adolescent child in the United States. Never has it been more important for the American people to understand exactly who rules the United States and what bastadary they are imposing upon the nation's people by saying one thing and yet doing something completely different. This book, simply and eloquently states the obvious--the wonderful United States is under the most subtle and sustained attack by people who are greedy, mean and clever, so utterly unlike the founders of the country who were wise, kind and caring and who embodied wonderful visions for the future of their embryonic nation. Read this book NOW, imbibe and digest its contents, remember the wisdom and direction of the founders, then rise up and reclaim your nation! --Helen Caldicott There is no more cogent, timely commentary to be found on urgent moral and political challenges facing us today, this week, than these columns and interviews by Blase Bonpane produced over the previous four years. To discover that in these pages is to feel shame and anger as an American that the shocking crimes and outrages of our government exposed here have been allowed by our society to persist or recur to this day. Fortunately, Bonpane's prophetic voice, along with his own example of courageous witness over four decades, can inspire readers to move beyond those emotions to action for a better world. --Daniel Ellsberg

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Blase Bonpane, Ph.d., is director of the Office of the Americas. He has served on the faculties of UCLA and California State University Northridge. His articles have been published internationally as a contributor to the Los Angeles Times and New York Times. Blase previously served as a Maryknoll Missioner in Guatemala during the revolutionary conflict of the 1960's. As a result of his work in peasant organization, he was expelled from that country in 1967. On his return to the United States, Blase and his family lived at the headquarters of United Farm Workers with Cesar Chavez where he was editor of UFW publications. He is host of the weekly radio program World Focus on Pacifica Radio (KPFK, Los Angeles). Blase also hosts the program World Focus on Time/Warner TV Educational and Public Access Channels.

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